Speaker and Deputy Speaker Election, 2017

Time to elect a new Speaker and Deputy Speaker! The terms last for 18 months, and the roles involve keeping Council records, keeping order in the Council and making sure its procedures run smoothly, and doing rewording/spelling-'n'-grammar correction amendments for bills. Any Councillor can run.

NOMINATIONS start NOW and end at 02:00 GMT, July 25th, 2017. Speaker candidates will then DEBATE until 02:00 GMT, August 1st, 2017. A VOTE will then be held for BOTH Speaker and Deputy Speaker, and will last until 02:00 GMT, August 8th, 2017.

Experience: A former prodigy within the Inquistan foreign service, Edward Firoux quickly made his way up the diplomatic ranks to become the Inquistan ambassador to Halsberg upon Halsberg's entrance to the European Union in 2011. In 2013, Edward Firoux succeed Mikaela Kligenberg as the Councillor of Inquista to the European Union, becoming the 3rd such Inquistan to hold that title. Since then, Edward Firoux has almost consistently been one of the most loudest and active voices within the European Council and has proposed almost a dozen pieces of legislation, as well as two dozen non-legislative motions. Edward Firoux is currently the second longest serving Councillor in the European Union and has held numerous leadership positions within caucus groups and former europarties.

I believe the period for voting has started, so I, on behalf of the Federal Republic of Derecta, vote for Sir Edward Mountain and Edward Firoux for the positions of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the European Council, respectively.

On behalf of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, I vote FOR Edward Firoux for Deputy Speaker. As a part of the United Kingdom's policies, I have been instructed to abstain from voting for myself in the Speaker election

Well we know the outcome because it's obviously been previously agreed by members of this council but I vote FOR myseld to be speaker and do not cast a vote for the pre-selected deputy speaker of the house